Chapter 12 Review Flashcards
APA
American Pyschological Association
DSM 4
Diagnostic and Statistical manual of mental disorders
Axis 1 (5 Axes)
Clinical syndroms
Axis 2 (5 Axes)
Personality disorders and mental retardation
Axis 3 (5 Axes)
General medical conditions
Axis 4 (5 Axes)
Psychological and environmental problems
Axis 5 (5 Axes)
Global assessment of functioning
marked by chronic, high anxiety not tied to specific threats
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Recurrent, sudden anxiety attacks, often accompanied by agoraphobia
Panic disorder
Fear of open spaces
Agoraphobia
marked by persistent, irrational fear of an object or situation that is not dangerous
Phobic disorder
Unrealistic, excessive fears of a specific class of stimuli, that interfere with normal activities
Phobias
Readily identifiable
Object of anxiety
Marked by uncontrolled intrusions of unwanted thoughts and urges to engage in senseless rituals
OCD
Mental disorder that only affects 2.5% of the population
OCD
Center on inflicting harm on others, personal failures, suicide, sexual acts
Obsessions
Stereotyped rituals that temporarily relieve anxiety
Compulsions
Suggest a genetic predisposition to anxiety dissorders
Twin studies
My play role in some anxiety disorders
Disturbances in neural circuits using gabba
Many anxiety responses acquired through
Classical conditioning
Many anxiety disorders maintained through
Operant conditioning
Assert that tendency to overinterpret harmless situations as threatening can cause anxiety disorders
Cognitive theoriests
May contribute to emergence of some anxiety disorders
Stress
Mental disorders involving a bodily physical problem for which no physiological basis is present
Somatoform disorders
Persistent and excessive worry about developing a seriously illness; misinterpret normal aches and pains
Hypochondria
Significal loss of physical function with no apparent organic basis; usually a single organ system
Conversion disorder
Blinded by fear
Conversion disorder
Marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that seem to be psychological in origin
Somatization disorder
Often show up in those with histrionic personality traits
Somatoform disorders
Focus excessive attention on bodily sensations an apply unrealistic standard of health
People with somatoform disorders
Somatoform disorders may occur in people who learn to like the
Sick role
Anxiety reduced by sudden disruption in consciousness; produces changes in one’s sense of identity
Dissociative disorder
Sudden loss of memory for personal information that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting
Amnesia